I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against
reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison. Reiser4 still seems to be lagging
behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in
the metric):
metric url to test results
------ ---------------------------------
reiser4 1208 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/
reiserfs 1819 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/
Mark
On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote:
> We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory
> related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We
> will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day
> bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next
> week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official
> kernel.
>
> We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two
> issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its
> stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) )
>
> We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts
> that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it
> soon. Please also complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> about poor documentation, etc., ....
>
> The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at
>
> http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/
